Synaptic does not work with proxy server

Bug #16228 reported by Thomas Schneller
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synaptic (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Synazptic does not work with proixy server. Entering a proxy server in system/preferences/
network proxy does not solve the problem. In a console if I type in export proxy_server=http://
proxyserverURL I can use apt-get without any problem.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Synaptic has it's own proxy configuration in "Settings/Preferences/Network", but
it will also honor a system-wide proxy seting with the http_proxy enviroment. It
can't use the users gnome proxy settings because synaptic runs as root and not
as a user.

There is the feature request #7314 open that asks about this feature too.

Cheers,
 Michael

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13661.

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